Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses

NHL Leung - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Human respiratory virus infections lead to a spectrum of respiratory symptoms and disease
severity, contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality and economic losses worldwide, as …

Testing at scale during the COVID-19 pandemic

TR Mercer, M Salit - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Assembly and publication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) genome in January 2020 enabled the immediate development of tests to detect the …

COVID-19 Vaccine: A comprehensive status report

SP Kaur, V Gupta - Virus research, 2020 - Elsevier
The current COVID-19 pandemic has urged the scientific community internationally to find
answers in terms of therapeutics and vaccines to control SARS-CoV-2. Published …

[HTML][HTML] Herd immunity: understanding COVID-19

HE Randolph, LB Barreiro - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its
associated disease, COVID-19, has demonstrated the devastating impact of a novel …

Diagnostic testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus 2: a narrative review

MP Cheng, J Papenburg, M Desjardins… - Annals of internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
Diagnostic testing to identify persons infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome–
related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is central to control the global pandemic of …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenicity and transmissibility of 2019-nCoV—a quick overview and comparison with other emerging viruses

J Chen - Microbes and infection, 2020 - Elsevier
A zoonotic coronavirus, tentatively labeled as 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization
(WHO), has been identified as the causative agent of the viral pneumonia outbreak in …

COVID-19: epidemiology, evolution, and cross-disciplinary perspectives

J Sun, WT He, L Wang, A Lai, X Ji, X Zhai, G Li… - Trends in molecular …, 2020 - cell.com
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan turned into a public health emergency of
international concern. With no antiviral drugs nor vaccines, and the presence of carriers …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of the reproductive number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the probable outbreak size on the Diamond Princess cruise ship: A data-driven …

S Zhang, MY Diao, W Yu, L Pei, Z Lin… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Backgrounds Up to February 16, 2020, 355 cases have been confirmed as having
COVID-19 infection on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. It is of crucial importance to …

Insights into the recent 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in light of past human coronavirus outbreaks

HM Ashour, WF Elkhatib, MM Rahman, HA Elshabrawy - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are RNA viruses that have become a major public health concern
since the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoV (SARS-CoV) outbreak in 2002. The …

Transmission dynamics of the COVID‐19 outbreak and effectiveness of government interventions: A data‐driven analysis

Y Fang, Y Nie, M Penny - Journal of medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Using the parameterized susceptible‐exposed‐infectious‐recovered model, we simulated
the spread dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak and impact of …